Effect of Working Motherhood on Babies

Check out this article that argues that babies don't suffer when mothers return to work.

Response to the Stigma of Being a Housewife

Check out this response letter:

Regarding the article “The stigma of being a housewife” by Katrin Bennhold (July 21): If someone told me 20 years ago that I would be a housewife, I would have bitten off his head.

The Stigma of Being a Housewife

STOCKHOLM — When the Swedish journalist Peter Letmark tried to track down a housewife for a series on 21st-century parents in the newspaper Dagens Nyheter recently, he failed.

"Housewives," he explained, "are a near-extinct species in Sweden. And the few who still do exist don’t really dare to go public with it."

Checkout this article that asks the question "When it is no longer socially acceptable to be a housewife — or homemaker, in modern American parlance — has feminism overshot its objective?"

Explaining the Gender Gap in Financial Literacy

Check out this new paper which claims that "financial illiteracy is widespread among women, and that many women are unfamiliar with even the most basic economic concepts needed to make saving and investment decisions."